Pram in the house?

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Now, I'm not normally superstitious, but when I told a girl at work yesterday that I'd be working at home this morning to take delivery of my pushchair she almost went ashen and declared that I musn't have a pram in the house before the baby is born. (Not due until Feb...dodging VAT increase).

It's a new one on me, and maybe it's the hormones but I keep wondering whether to take it straight round to a friend for safekeeping! Even more crazy given how many other baby bits and bobs we already have around the place.

I had this too, but it's bollocks. Also had the "you can't put the cot up untill the baby is born safely" also bollocks. Someone on here said, if tragically you lost your baby at any gestation, would not having any baby paraphenalia about lessen your grief? Erm a resounding no, pregnancy and birth are a risky business. Whatever happens will happen, buying stuff is not going to influence that.

i won't have the pram in the house either but thats because i did with DC1 and tragically lost the baby, and no it doesn't lessen the grief, in fact it makes it much worse having to take it all back.

What about all the children in the world who aren't PFBs? Surely their prams are already in the house before they arrive?

see thats where OWT don't make sense. Think it only applies to a new pram lol.

As another poster said, it does make it worse if anything happens. My mother found that, I think its because its such a big purchase.

I think we have the right to choose if we do want to or not, at the end of the day its what we as parents feel comfortable with and we shouldn't belittle someone's choice if they choose not to tempt fate :) My case it would just be earache from MIL....but if I believed what she said I would never use the washing machine New years day.... (for those who havent heard that one, its thought you wash someone away when you wash new years day) but she hasn't gone yet and I think of her everytime I do it (deliberately NYD) :o

i used to work in a shop that sold prams and lots of people would say they didn't want to pick theirs up until baby was born so we'd store them. Its obviously bollocks but seems to be a widely held view.(especially amongst the older gen.)

Violetwellies, I can't help myself, I walk new shoes along the table twice just because I am told not to sniggers

You have to get some things or the poor thing would have nothing to wear lol.

Bonkers. My friend's gran told her to "avoid foxes" (hardly difficult) when she was pregnant or she'd have a "Ginger baby with heavily lidded eyes."
Mad, on so many levels.

I'm with you tlise, I actively flout superstitions, to an almost superstitious degree lol.

LOL BagofHolly!! If that were true every child born on my area of London would have those features. Very hard to avoid urban foxes!

Bought DD's pram in a sale while under 6 months pregnant. 3 years later she's fine and not only is the monster still in use [or will be during any snow fall] I'm digging out all the bits so my new baby can use it when it's born in June this superstition [like most] is utter bollocks. imo.

Logically, of course it makes no difference.

But, like sam26oscar, my DS1 died. You cannot begin to imagine the grief. Dealing with baby equipment is definitely not helpful. I think it's a tradition that grew out of earlier generations who dealt with death more often.